It isn't like 8 of 10 people standing on the sidewalk are giant tubs of lard. You notice fat people because they aren't the norm and are not nearly as common as people think. If they were, you wouldn't call them "fat", you'd call them "normal".
Actually over 5 of 10 are obese according to the CDC (35.7% adults 17% kids). http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/facts.html So over half and yeah they are as common as people think, and that doesn't even count those that are simply overweight (and not obese) which is over 34% http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/overwt.htm. Added together, no matter what street corner you go to you will be surrounded by overweight and obese people which indeed *ARE* the norm. But I do agree with your other points.
the double big gulps are the best value and the cups are great for stuff at home. it's surprisingly easy to suck down 64 ounces of soda on a hot summer day.
If you really believe you got 64 oz of soda in that cup, then their marketing worked.
Granted if you fill it yourself you can add little or no ice, but for any to go cups where the store fills it, I think you'd be surprised at just how little drink is in the rather large cup when you take away all the (cheap filler) ice. Around here, Sonic is the worst. A 'Route 44' big drink is really only a little more than a 12oz soda can in a bucket of ice.
Would rather have an add-on box that had these features so I don't need a new tv and will work with anything out there. Why would anyone buy a TV with such integrated, limited features when they will be outdated long before the TV is?
Give me a marginally smart tv (net capable, some apps), and then anything else let a standalone and easily replaceable box be added, sort of like, I don't know, the current AppleTV?
I'm not an Xbox owner but always a potential customer. Is Xbox Live required or can you just play all your games and movies like normal and it is only for online play? I'm assuming certain games require it (MW3? COD?) b/c of their nature of online play, or at least part of the game would if they have a stand alone single player campaign.
Does this version of the Xbox come with wifi built in? I thought I remember a while ago dongles for sale since it initially didn't have it?
With 2 younguns and a couple DS's, iPod/Pad, and a Wii, I'm still not sure the $99 would be worth it for our household/usage. And from what I've seen of my relatives use of the Kinect sensor I think I'll pass. Though it might be fun to play with for some 3D modeling and such.
For my personal usage, the only reason I still use it is at work it's nice to have Live Bookmarks. Seeing the RSS feed titles without having to use yet another service to manage is great. But I'd have switched completely to Chrome earlier if it wasn't for this.
Now all my installs and managed pc's run Chrome. It's just so much easier and simpler, esp when the client is already in the Google domain.
MS Live Mesh (SkyDrive) gives you 25 GB of uploadable storage but the synced style like DropBox and Google Drive is limited to 5GB. Also the synced folders don't show up in your SkyDrive account. So MS has some confusion over the separate services it has.
Saw this too and it should be a req'd link in the summary. They shed a lot of light on how most of forensic evidence does not hold to the scientific method and that many so called expert court witnesses are anything but, even with the fancy sounding diploma mill accreditation.
Hulu pisses me off because even if you pay for + you still get increasingly more commercials (seriously, they started with just a couple of commercials per show, now they rival over the air amounts).
The thing that REALLY pisses me off about Hulu is the lack of agnosticism. You can only watch THIS show on a computer, you can't watch it on your TV with your BluRay player or on your phone - even if you paid for Plus. >
If your BR player is internet capable (most are) you can use PlayOn and stream any internet video to your TV regardless of Hulu rules. We have it and love it. No need for a dedicated HTPC or constantly plugging in your laptop. So either have a smart TV or a net connected BR player and you're good to go with all of Hulu, ESPN3, all the networks, MLB, NHL, etc.
The problem with even basic cable in my area though is you don't get that many good stations anyway. There are over 25 over the air stations and many are HD, not the compressed "HD" you get with cable all available from a cheap antenna. And they do have filters which many cable companies use to block such things if you are only an internet/phone subscriber. Your installer was just ignorant or lazy (or great!).
Having said that we don't have cable either, with two little kids and active lifestyles, PlayOn and Netflix and local broadcast gets us all the video we need.
Of course it was on purpose, from the very beginning it was meant to increase ratings. This is a local story, one you would find on many nightly news local stations. In what way is this a story deserving of national headlines? Why? Because they can make it such and inflame the viewership to create controversy which sells ratings. They are using the death of a teenager to increase ratings pure and simple.
On many websites, Safari has a built in "Reader" option button that pops up in the address bar. It does it even on/. stories. It seems it is a simple trigger. So perhaps instead of blaming Apple, you should blame the non-mobile friendly sites you are visiting?
It's a shame that you can't access the majority of video and music sites that use flash like pandora and grooveshark (I don't need a useless app, thanks)
So you'd rather use a non-optimized generic web interface? Even Android has apps for those sites/services. The apps are optimized for the device, you know, to make it the best experience but for some reason you choose to be stubborn and say they are "useless". Hmm, me thinks you'll just argue about anything. Flash is dead, get over it. Although looking at your COBOL reference in your sig I now understand your difficulties with the modern world.
I don't think it's ridiculous at all when you are considering the general public, as the only thing they have to fill up space is bigger photos and video from their cameras. They use consoles for games and stream video from the net or services, if at all. What else is there that takes up tons of space? I manage many computers in my extended family and of course have seen numerous others. Sure we're now defaulting to 160 or 250 GB HDD's on cheap bulk boxes but most of that is never used. Esp now with us approaching a "post-PC" world where more services are hosted remotely.
You can't stream video all the time without hitting bandwidth caps and other nastiness. Especially at HDTV bitrates. What if your Internet is down or otherwise too slow to stream properly?
For now anyway. Maybe some day in the future connectivity will be better but that's probably not going to change much for many years.
Granted most of *us* can find something to fill it but when Dell and other bulk PC makers start including 1TB or 10TB drives in their basic PC's, most of it will still be unused by the general public. With higher MP cameras I can fill mine up with video and pics and a few converted movies/music. But with streaming options and so much available online or stored online for you, I just don't see the need to keep a ton of torrented movies and other files around taking up space and having to manage.
The more space we have, it seems the more we keep. I can see a new show as a spinoff of "Hoarders" showing just what all is in your computers HDD.
I hate to have to point out the cynicism, but the GP is not faulting Google with what they're doing.
And I think the concluding sentence is better written that "Google is at risk of not becoming another Lucent Technologies," which is the mediocre company that Bell Labs turned into after it stopped doing first-class change-the-world fundamental research.
The point is that asshats don't want another Bell Labs. Bell Labs wasn't about quarterly profits. They invented transistors, lasers, information theory and UNIX. None of that stuff was profitable within two quarters, was it? So obviously it was useless and they shouldn't have wasted the money developing any of it.
Is the sarcasm clearer now?
Bell Labs was never "Lucent Technologies". I work there. It has always been a separate R&D branch of whatever parent company it has. Lucent joined with Alcatel which is now Alcatel-Lucent based out of France. Bell Labs is still Bell Labs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Labs
I'm not sure I buy this unless everyone is driving around 15 y.o. vehicles. Don't almost all vehicles made in the past many years come with some type of daytime running lights?
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It isn't like 8 of 10 people standing on the sidewalk are giant tubs of lard. You notice fat people because they aren't the norm and are not nearly as common as people think. If they were, you wouldn't call them "fat", you'd call them "normal".
Actually over 5 of 10 are obese according to the CDC (35.7% adults 17% kids). http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/facts.html So over half and yeah they are as common as people think, and that doesn't even count those that are simply overweight (and not obese) which is over 34% http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/overwt.htm. Added together, no matter what street corner you go to you will be surrounded by overweight and obese people which indeed *ARE* the norm. But I do agree with your other points.
the double big gulps are the best value and the cups are great for stuff at home. it's surprisingly easy to suck down 64 ounces of soda on a hot summer day.
If you really believe you got 64 oz of soda in that cup, then their marketing worked.
Granted if you fill it yourself you can add little or no ice, but for any to go cups where the store fills it, I think you'd be surprised at just how little drink is in the rather large cup when you take away all the (cheap filler) ice. Around here, Sonic is the worst. A 'Route 44' big drink is really only a little more than a 12oz soda can in a bucket of ice.
Sorry, unless it's a high school student coming up with this for a science fair, Slashdot isn't interested.
I only keep it so I can get unlimited photo storage instead of the paltry amount they give you with Picasa web albums.
Would rather have an add-on box that had these features so I don't need a new tv and will work with anything out there. Why would anyone buy a TV with such integrated, limited features when they will be outdated long before the TV is?
Give me a marginally smart tv (net capable, some apps), and then anything else let a standalone and easily replaceable box be added, sort of like, I don't know, the current AppleTV?
I'm not an Xbox owner but always a potential customer. Is Xbox Live required or can you just play all your games and movies like normal and it is only for online play? I'm assuming certain games require it (MW3? COD?) b/c of their nature of online play, or at least part of the game would if they have a stand alone single player campaign.
Does this version of the Xbox come with wifi built in? I thought I remember a while ago dongles for sale since it initially didn't have it?
With 2 younguns and a couple DS's, iPod/Pad, and a Wii, I'm still not sure the $99 would be worth it for our household/usage. And from what I've seen of my relatives use of the Kinect sensor I think I'll pass. Though it might be fun to play with for some 3D modeling and such.
For my personal usage, the only reason I still use it is at work it's nice to have Live Bookmarks. Seeing the RSS feed titles without having to use yet another service to manage is great. But I'd have switched completely to Chrome earlier if it wasn't for this. Now all my installs and managed pc's run Chrome. It's just so much easier and simpler, esp when the client is already in the Google domain.
2 to 3 Ads per half hour show don't really bother me too much. Especially when they are mainly 30 seconds with the occational 1 min. long Ad.
But it's a paid for service! No. Just No.
MS Live Mesh (SkyDrive) gives you 25 GB of uploadable storage but the synced style like DropBox and Google Drive is limited to 5GB. Also the synced folders don't show up in your SkyDrive account. So MS has some confusion over the separate services it has.
Good watch: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/real-csi/ One thing they didn't cover, however, was the horror behind "expert" psychologists/psychiatrists and the damage they inflict.
Saw this too and it should be a req'd link in the summary. They shed a lot of light on how most of forensic evidence does not hold to the scientific method and that many so called expert court witnesses are anything but, even with the fancy sounding diploma mill accreditation.
Goes to show you how easy it was to cheat the electric bill with a little skill, resources and patience and lack of ethics.
Fixed that for you.
The eighties was 30 years ago? Shit I'm old.
The 80's will forever be 20 years ago to me.
Hulu pisses me off because even if you pay for + you still get increasingly more commercials (seriously, they started with just a couple of commercials per show, now they rival over the air amounts).
The thing that REALLY pisses me off about Hulu is the lack of agnosticism. You can only watch THIS show on a computer, you can't watch it on your TV with your BluRay player or on your phone - even if you paid for Plus. >
If your BR player is internet capable (most are) you can use PlayOn and stream any internet video to your TV regardless of Hulu rules. We have it and love it. No need for a dedicated HTPC or constantly plugging in your laptop. So either have a smart TV or a net connected BR player and you're good to go with all of Hulu, ESPN3, all the networks, MLB, NHL, etc.
The problem with even basic cable in my area though is you don't get that many good stations anyway. There are over 25 over the air stations and many are HD, not the compressed "HD" you get with cable all available from a cheap antenna. And they do have filters which many cable companies use to block such things if you are only an internet/phone subscriber. Your installer was just ignorant or lazy (or great!).
Having said that we don't have cable either, with two little kids and active lifestyles, PlayOn and Netflix and local broadcast gets us all the video we need.
Of course it was on purpose, from the very beginning it was meant to increase ratings. This is a local story, one you would find on many nightly news local stations. In what way is this a story deserving of national headlines? Why? Because they can make it such and inflame the viewership to create controversy which sells ratings. They are using the death of a teenager to increase ratings pure and simple.
And for your laptops, install something like LoJack or Prey so you can theoretically track them.
On many websites, Safari has a built in "Reader" option button that pops up in the address bar. It does it even on /. stories. It seems it is a simple trigger. So perhaps instead of blaming Apple, you should blame the non-mobile friendly sites you are visiting?
It's a shame that you can't access the majority of video and music sites that use flash like pandora and grooveshark (I don't need a useless app, thanks)
So you'd rather use a non-optimized generic web interface? Even Android has apps for those sites/services. The apps are optimized for the device, you know, to make it the best experience but for some reason you choose to be stubborn and say they are "useless". Hmm, me thinks you'll just argue about anything. Flash is dead, get over it. Although looking at your COBOL reference in your sig I now understand your difficulties with the modern world.
Hollywood hasn't had an original idea in over a decade
I beg to differ! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34x6m-ahGIo
I don't think it's ridiculous at all when you are considering the general public, as the only thing they have to fill up space is bigger photos and video from their cameras. They use consoles for games and stream video from the net or services, if at all. What else is there that takes up tons of space? I manage many computers in my extended family and of course have seen numerous others. Sure we're now defaulting to 160 or 250 GB HDD's on cheap bulk boxes but most of that is never used. Esp now with us approaching a "post-PC" world where more services are hosted remotely.
You can't stream video all the time without hitting bandwidth caps and other nastiness. Especially at HDTV bitrates. What if your Internet is down or otherwise too slow to stream properly?
For now anyway. Maybe some day in the future connectivity will be better but that's probably not going to change much for many years.
Go outside?
Granted most of *us* can find something to fill it but when Dell and other bulk PC makers start including 1TB or 10TB drives in their basic PC's, most of it will still be unused by the general public. With higher MP cameras I can fill mine up with video and pics and a few converted movies/music. But with streaming options and so much available online or stored online for you, I just don't see the need to keep a ton of torrented movies and other files around taking up space and having to manage.
The more space we have, it seems the more we keep. I can see a new show as a spinoff of "Hoarders" showing just what all is in your computers HDD.
I hate to have to point out the cynicism, but the GP is not faulting Google with what they're doing.
And I think the concluding sentence is better written that "Google is at risk of not becoming another Lucent Technologies," which is the mediocre company that Bell Labs turned into after it stopped doing first-class change-the-world fundamental research.
The point is that asshats don't want another Bell Labs. Bell Labs wasn't about quarterly profits. They invented transistors, lasers, information theory and UNIX. None of that stuff was profitable within two quarters, was it? So obviously it was useless and they shouldn't have wasted the money developing any of it.
Is the sarcasm clearer now?
Bell Labs was never "Lucent Technologies". I work there. It has always been a separate R&D branch of whatever parent company it has. Lucent joined with Alcatel which is now Alcatel-Lucent based out of France. Bell Labs is still Bell Labs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Labs
Time to bring back Crystal Pepsi and Tab Clear! It's the early 90's trend all over again! Perhaps 7up can be relevant again.
I'm not sure I buy this unless everyone is driving around 15 y.o. vehicles. Don't almost all vehicles made in the past many years come with some type of daytime running lights?